Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team
Life doesn’t always go smoothly on the mission field. On the way to pick up missionary Paul Nitz and his family from the airport today our Toyota’s clutch gave up the ghost, leaving us stuck on the side of the road and the Nitz family stuck at the airport. No AAA emergency towing in Malawi, we wait for another missionary to come to the rescue. Continue reading “Warning Triangles”
Her face shows both excitement and worry as she contemplates the future. Her husband is beginning ministry in a place she’s never seen, among people she’s never met. It’s a culture very different from the one she comes from, in a remote location with limited amenities for daily living, and limited access to her family back home. Her husband will slip into his routine of making sermons and visits and her children will make new friends quickly, but it will take a little more time for her to find her place in this community. Will she bear the burden of meeting other people’s expectations with grace? Will she and her husband bridge the cultural gap between themselves and their members? Continue reading “Moving Day”
Welcome to Friends of Africa, a blogging site dedicated to nurturing friendships between Christians in the United States and in Africa. My name is John Roebke and I recently moved to Lilongwe, Malawi to begin work as the Missionary of Publications for the Lutheran Church of Central Africa. I am part of a team of ten American missionaries who work to inspire and encourage local churches in Zambia, Nigeria, Cameroon and Malawi. Our sponsoring agency is the Wisconsin Synod (WELS), which supports mission work in 52 countries around the world and in the United States as well. You can discover more about our work in Africa at https://wels.net/serving-others/missions/africa
